The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group warmly invites you to a conversation between Audrey Samson (of the artist duo FRAUD), Stephen Cornford, and Yaiza Hernandez Velazquez. The event marks the launch of EURO—VISION: Undergrounding the Critical Mineral, published in October 2025 by K. Verlag.
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October 11 2025 | 11:30 GMT | Online via MS Teams
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, data engineer and artist specialising in climate change.
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A talk by Sasha Anikina and Kwame Phillips at IHG, University of Glasgow. They will share thoughts some of CIIP’s recent work on haunted/haunting, and the recently announced Culture Machine open call on the University as Infrastructure.
Read MoreUniversities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers and information management systems. Initiated by CIIP, this special issue aims to take stock of the challenges and possibilities here for University as Infrastructure.
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We are recruiting an Artist in Residence to undertake artistic research with a focus on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology, in the context of the recently awarded UKRI grant ‘SOUNDSCALE: Sensing On Urban Noise: Distributed Sensing for Collaborative and Sustainable Cityscapes and Living Environments’, http://soundscale.ac.uk.
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Tuesday 18th March | 11:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre B, Winchester School of Art [in-person]
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London and an associate artist with Greenpeace UK on the project Bad Taste. His work is currently on show with Devonshire Collective in the solo exhibition Conjunction in Eastbourne.
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Tuesday 11th March | 10:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre B, Winchester School of Art and online
Visual artist LUCY HELTON born in London and returning after 18 years in New York, received her master’s degree in fine art photography from HarFord Art School, CT, in 2014. She’s currently a funded PhD practice-led researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art focusing on human environmental impact in outer space.
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This year marked the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group’s first collaboration with the transmediale festival in Berlin, part of an extended collaboration between transmediale and Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton), which is planned to continue with future iterations of the festival.
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“Ours is a time with a dark heart, ripe for noir, the gothic and the baroque” (Zafón 2020).
Watch out for CIIP’s presence exploring haunting/haunted at the 38th transmediale festival for digital art and culture taking place in Berlin from January 29th to February 2nd, featuring directors Megen de Bruin-Molé, Kwame Phillips and Sasha Anikina and with collaborations with Liz Gre, SA Smythe, Rebecca Pokua Korang, Chera Kee, Francis Gene-Rowe, Yaqian Lai, Yadira Sánchez Benitez, Georgia Perkins and Alejandro Limpo Gonzalez.
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November 28 2024 | 15:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art and online
An artist talk by Aziza Kadyri discussing her transmedia practice, which integrates AI, extended reality, and traditional Central Asian crafts to explore the intersection of cultural heritage and immersive technology.
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November 7 2024 | 15:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art and online
An artist talk by Syaura Qotrunadha, an Indonesian artist whose dynamic portfolio spans diverse mediums, including photography, textiles, woodwork, interactive installations, recycled paper, video art, historical and digital archives.
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October 31 2024 | 15:00 GMT | Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art and online
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, data engineer and artist specialising in climate change.
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October 15 2024 | 10:00 BST | Fishbowl, 1039 Eastside Winchester School of Art
Visual artist and founder of Banner Repeater, Ami’s practice works critically across art and technology, in film and video, sculpture and sound, often coming together in multi-media installations.
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July 10 2024 | 18:00 BST | Borough Road Gallery, London
The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics group in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image is inviting you to a discussion of cyberfeminism and AI imaginaries
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The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group is inviting applications to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships.
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June 05 – July 03, 2024. Location: Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University
Set up as a media re-distribution unit, The Great Netfix unfolds as a performative installation that works to reform relations between labour, automation and ownership.
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Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group hosts a workshop and a half-day informal symposium dedicated to the use of artistic research, science fiction, future studies and other creative methods in researching cultural approaches to AI and decolonial and feminist AI imaginaries.
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May 17 2024 | 18:30 BST. Location: May Day Rooms, London.
Infrastructural decay and spaces of communal leisure in post-socialist Bulgaria.
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May 7, 2024 at 13.00 GMT. Location: Online
Guest talk by Rolien Hoyng on the use of models as proxies in climate science.
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April 30, 2024 at 13.30 GMT. Location: Winchester School of Art.
Guest talk by Professor Olga Goriunova, cultural theorist working with technological cultures, media philosophy and aesthetics.
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April 16, 2024 | 14:15 CET
Location: Aarhus University
Welcome to this seminar with four guest talks on critical infrastructures and image politics by scholars and artists from the UK: Alexandra Anikina, Kwame Phillips, Stephen Cornford, and Geoff Cox.
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April 16, 2024 | 09:30 CET
Location: Aarhus University
In this workshop we will collaboratively diagram the data and software systems on which all Universities have become dependent.
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February 16 – March 23, 2024.
Location: Pound Arts, Corsham
This solo exhibition takes the rate of limestone extraction in North East Somerset as its title. The work considers the relationship between technology and landscape…
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March 12, 2024 at 14.00 GMT. Location: Winchester School of Art.
Imani Jacqueline Brown (b. 1988) is an artist, activist, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London.
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Wednesday 06 March 2024 at 15.00-17.00 GMT. Location: Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University.
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January 24 – February 10, 2024.
Location: Medialab Matadero, Madrid
A collaborative world-building project led by Alexandra Anikina, aimed at imagining micropolitical narratives, visual cultures, non-state infrastructures and new relationalities of what a potential xenosocialist AI (encountering the human-inhabited Earth) could be, drawing on science fiction methods and decolonial and feminist approaches.
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December 01, 2023 | 10:00 GMT
Location: Winchester School of Art
A panel discussion between Dr Alexandra Anikina, Dr Stephen Cornford, Professor Geoff Cox (London South Bank), and Professor Jussi Parikka (Aarhus) on the relationships between image and infrastructure.
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November 07, 2023 | 14:00 GMT
Winchester School of Art
Critical artist and researcher Wesley Goatley’s work examines AI technologies and their relations to society, geopolitics, and the climate crisis.
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November 06, 2023 | 19:00 CET
Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Alexandra Anikina’s talk in the series Feeds & Flows: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ephemeral Image Cultures at Bauhaus University Weimar.
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November 06, 2023 | 18:30 AEDT
Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney
Photographic imaging technologies have long been associated with important historical shifts in art practice.
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